I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time.

com praised her performance: "She doesn't quite know what to do with her character's stilted dialogue but Eva Green carries herself so regally that you barely notice. Green's performance was well received: Entertainment Weekly called her the fourth best Bond girl of all time;IGN named her the best femme fatale stating "This is the girl that broke – and therefore made – James Bond"; and Eva Green won a BAFTA and an Empire award for her performance. She was cast at the last minute in the role of Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film Casino Royale (2006).

Green performed in theatre before making her film debut in 2003 in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial film The Dreamers. In 2013 Eva Green is going to play Ava Lord in Frank Miller's and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and also Artemisia in 300 side-quel 300: Rise of an Empire.